Tag Archives: advertising

When water touch the bottom…

February 27, 2009 – 7:26

txt: Coca- Cola not ‘buying’ Venice – ANSA Coca-Cola is not ”buying” Venice, its city council said Monday, reacting to polemics over a planned million-dollar partnership between the drinks giant and the lagoon city. Italian daily La Stampa reported Monday that the city was ”selling itself” to Coca-Cola in a 2.1 million-dollar deal that will [...]

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It’s so contemporary, Venice!

November 25, 2008 – 9:24

[txt] Outrage in Venice as giant ads smother cultural jewels – www.guardian.co.uk Since the end of August, a vast Lancia car has been parked on the front of the Palazzo Ducale in Venice. A giant Rolex watch has been draped over the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, also in St Mark’s Square. And, by the Grand Canal, [...]

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The thing I hate/love most about advertising

September 12, 2008 – 22:04

[txt] Room 116 – Banksy The thing I hate most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by [...]

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More digital, less kids

March 4, 2008 – 8:35

txt: Digital kids ditch homework for networking British 15-to-19-year-olds admit spending significantly less time doing homework than they used to as a result of their use of social-networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo, according to research published today. While teachers and parents will be dismayed, the 2008 Digital Entertainment Survey also makes uncomfortable [...]

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The medium is the message from our sponsor

November 8, 2007 – 10:02

Facebook announced its new social advertising plans. text from: Rough type -The social graft Infect me. I’m yours. Facebook, which distinguished itself by being the anti-MySpace, is now determined to out-MySpace MySpace. It’s a nifty system: First you get your users to entrust their personal data to you, and then you not only sell that [...]

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